The Toronto Star's best bets for live music Friday night.

In just three albums up to the rock-flavoured release this month, Girl Talk, the young Brit has moved forward out of her bedroom-recording roots and back from soulful to the basics of surf and garage. That’s a lot of ground covered in a short time — mix in the feminism and fire at the root of her songwriting, and you have a pretty promising talent on the rise. Horseshoe, doors 9 p.m.

Einherjer

Black metal trio from Norway have been around for two decades. Among the trailblazers of this particular branch of the tree, their take on Viking legends has some of the usual posturing but with a couple twists — amid all the heavy riffage and harmonic flourishes they are pretty tuneful, and drummer Gerhard Storesund can really thump. With Panzerfaust, Sig: Ar: Tyr. Hard Luck Bar, doors 8:30 p.m.

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